Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1912 — NOT SUFFRAGETTE NOW [ARTICLE]

NOT SUFFRAGETTE NOW

LITTLE GIRL LOSES DISDAIN FOR ,T-5; THE boys. « y ' 7, Conversion Comes Through Disaster to Her Doll Whep She Undertakes to Throw a Brick at Marauding Doga. “Do you see that little girl?” asked the old bachelor, as he leaned upon his gate and halted me In my tnorning walk. “Yesterday she was all for woman’s rights, but today her views are of a different complexion.” He nodded toward a four-year-old who was wandering with lonely and disconsolate air along the edge of the sidewalk.

“She lives in that little shack over there, and she hasn’t much to play with, but she’s well brought up and her mother has taught her to flock by herself and not chum with street boys and girls. Some one gave her a doll and doll buggy, and she’s been out with it every fine day as proud and happy as a queen. She’s scared to death, though, of two small dogs that live across the street and come sniffing around her and her baby. The boys, too, tease her sometimes, but they throw Btones at the dogs and chase them away. she was pushing her •buggy along and singing to herself when the dogs ran out She baited and watched them approaching. Then she made up her mind she’d chase them herself Instead of squealing for the boys. “So she stood in front of the buggy snd picked up a piece of brick. It was pretty heavy for her, but she threw her arm back the way she’d seen the boys do and hufled it with all her might She shut her eyes tight as she threw, so as not to witness the annihilation of the dogs, I guess, and probably she thought the crash that followed was the breaking of their bones, but when she opened her eyes the enemy was unhurt and coming right on. Then she turned to fly, but when she looked into 'her buggy the yell that arose brought people to the windows for a block around. "She had thrown the brick behind her and smashed her doll to flinders. "Her mother came and bore her off, wailing at every step; and today she Is quiet, as you see, but it is plain her heart as well as her doll Is broken. “Yesterday I thought I would teach her how to throw stones, bnt today I’ve changed my mind. I’m going to get her a new doll. I think she’ll leave the dogs to the boys in future.”

Walls That Don't Transmit Bounds. Experiments have recently been carried out In Germany with the object of discovering methods and means for rendering walls and ceilings capable of effective resistance to sound transmission. One of the more recently devised methods Involves the use under the ceiling, or parallel to the wall, as the case may be, of a network of wire stretched tlghtly-by means of pulleys secured into adjacent walls and not touching at any point the surface to be protected against sound. Upon the wire network Is plastered a composition formed of strong glue, plaster of parts and granulated cork, so as to make a flat slab, between which and the wall or ceiling is a cushion of confined air. The method described is said to be good in two respects: first, the absence of contact between the protective and protected surfaces, and, secondly, the coirbld ture of the composition recommended for the plaster.